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The long-running battle over royalties owed by webcasterscompanies that broadcast music over the Internettook several significant leaps towards conclusion last month with important developments both inside and outside of the courtroom

A court has ruled that incorporating into a video game a virtual strip club with a similar look and feel to the real thing has artistic relevance and that similarities between the real and virtual strip clubs were not explicitly misleading

In Lenz v. Universal Music Corp et al. (Case 5:07-cv-03783 JF) a California District Court held that in order to issue a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) takedown notice in good faith, a copyright holder must evaluate whether the use at issue qualifies as “fair use” under copyright law

In a significant victory for publishers in their long-running battle with freelancers, a federal appeals court in Atlanta recently ruled that magazine publishers do not have to compensate the individual copyright holders of freelanced articles and photographs when the magazines are reproduced on CD-ROM for commercial sale, unless contracts between the publisher and the freelancer provide to the contrary

As a sanction for electronic discovery violations, the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California ordered Valence Media LLC, the parent company of TorrentSpy.com, to pay $110,997,000 in damages to six motion picture studios for secondary liability for copyright infringement